Tao Chengzhang

Tao Chengzhang (1878-14 January 1912) was a leader of the Tongmenghui secret society during the Xinhai Revolution.

Biography
Tao Chengzhang was born in Zhejiang, China in 1878, and he worked as a private school teacher before joining the Tongmenghui secret society. In 1907, he was exiled to Southeast Asia after he was caught planning an uprising, and he became involved with publishing propaganda newspapers. In 1908, he set up numerous chapters of the Tongmenghui across China, and he became rivals with Sun Yat-sen due to his opposition to Sun receiving Japanese funds to assist him with overthrowing the Qing dynasty. In 1911, he was one of the leaders of the Wuchang Uprising and the Xinhai Revolution, and he objected to Zhang Jian's nomination of Chen Qimei as Military Governor of Shanghai, claiming that he was not fit for the job. Tao would disperse the men in the room by revealing that he had dynamite strapped to his chest, threatening Chen, Zhang, and the others. Tao would later fall ill, and Chen sent Chiang Kai-shek to kill Tao at the Saint Mary's Hospital. Chang wore a nurse's scrubs and covered his face with a surgeon's mask, and he managed to subdue Tao's bodyguard with the nurse's cart before shooting Tao twice in the back and once in the head as he tried to escape through his hospital room's window.